Holiday Tomato Soup!

Once more, using up leftover bits of stuff in the fridge, and finding it is really fun and the kids love it!

--Had some leftover cooked bow-tie pasta.  Added just a little water to the pasta pot and warmed and stirred the pasta to get it unclumped (it had been tossed with garlic olive oil last night, so it was easy to separate tonight).
--Put in one can of tomato sauce and half a big jar of spaghetti sauce.  Got it all warm and just starting to bubble.
--Put in some milk and some leftover heavy cream, reduced heat to low.
--Tossed in half a bag of frozen peas.  Cooked it all for a few minutes, stirring frequently and keeping the temperature low so the milk did not start to coagulate.
--Add pepper to taste.
--When the soup is warmed through, add fresh grape tomatoes and fresh snipped basil.
--Keep warming for a few minutes to get the tomatoes warm but not hot, and then serve!

A pretty, creamy red sauce with bright balls of green and red and white bows and green confetti--a Christmas celebration in a bowl!  The kids loved it, including Smiley who is in a very finicky stage at the moment and who will look at the food being offered to him, wrinkle his nose, and say, "Yucky."  This even if it is food he could not get enough of last week.  And this from a child who has never heard his sisters call food "yucky" because that is verboten at our table--if they don't want it they know to say "No thank you" or "This is not my favorite." ; )  So I really don't know where he is getting this, but he is Newly-Two and I guess that says it all.